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Post by gazza on May 3, 2008 20:38:01 GMT
What do you all do with your off cuts and shavings ?
Sell, give away,recycle,burn or dump?
Cheers,
Gazza.
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Post by jonnyd on May 3, 2008 20:49:00 GMT
Hi I burn pretty much everything. I save all the scraps and shavings throughout the summer and it lasts the winter.
Jon
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Post by woodyew on May 3, 2008 23:27:33 GMT
I burn them to. Along with all them cardboard boxes that deliveries come in, and the pesky free papers get chucked in to.
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Post by jaco on May 4, 2008 5:05:19 GMT
Off cuts = just a smaller project waiting to be discovered!
All else goes into the compost system with the leaves and grass.
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Post by gazza on May 5, 2008 12:00:26 GMT
Thanks for the replies, Jonnyd, Boardhaka and Jaco. Is it a secret what the rest of you do with yours  |
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Post by andy on May 5, 2008 12:06:15 GMT
Weekly trip to the tip
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Post by engineerone on May 5, 2008 12:13:52 GMT
put them to one side and hope i can find a thing to make with them  of course by the time that comes around they have broken, put splinters in me, or aren't worth the effort ;D paul  |
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Post by jmk89 on May 5, 2008 22:40:57 GMT
I have two small children - boy 4 1/2 and girl 3. They love 'doing woodwork with Daddy in the Workshop'. So my offcuts become things that they hammer nails in and stick together (I now buy Titebond in the 3.785 litre bottle!!!). The things look to me like abstract art, but they tell me what they are: the boy's latest is a 'lawnmower' - it's just a 1.8m length of floor board with odd bits of wood nailed and stuck to it, but to him it's a lawnmower.  |
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Post by robo on May 5, 2008 22:55:33 GMT
Shavings - compost
Hardwood Offcuts - save them until I cannot cope with them then burn as firewood
Oak offcuts - trade them in to timber yard for use in smokers.
R
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Post by paulchapman on May 6, 2008 11:29:23 GMT
Used to save offcuts, but eventually you get buried  Now burn them on the fire if it's winter, or take them to the dump the rest of the year. Cheers Paul |
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Post by trsleigh on May 8, 2008 14:21:56 GMT
Simply advertise them on your local freecycle site. Someone, somewhere will always take anything, I haven't been to the tip in months.
Toby
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Post by Quarter-Sawn on May 12, 2008 18:21:06 GMT
Planer shavings and other machine waste will rot down on the compost heap. It happens slowly, and also aerates while it is in the heap...
Pet shops won't have it because they say it has to be sterilised or the little 'darlings' might have allergies! I suppose someone who smokes food, might use oak chippings..
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Post by barnie on May 12, 2008 19:27:57 GMT
we burn all our sawdust offcuts (that are to small to use) and shavings. This helps heat the workshop in the winter.
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Post by lemonjeff on May 12, 2008 20:53:41 GMT
Hardwood chippings & dust for Smoking bacon, sausages, cheese, ham, ribs etc.  L-R. Pancetta, Sweet cure Bacon, Suffolk cure Ham, Std Streaky, Panceta adobada. F. Cheddar Cheese  Polish Sausage. All Cherry smoked Jeff |
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Post by jaco on May 13, 2008 11:12:34 GMT
Jeff, just PM me your full home address, directions and details of when you will not be at home. Also remember to take the dogs with you.  |
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Post by lemonjeff on May 14, 2008 9:29:27 GMT
I forgot to mention Biltong Jeff |
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Post by jaco on May 14, 2008 11:16:29 GMT
Biltong! Eish! The equivilent of a mothers milk in a chewable meat form! Goes extremely well with beer. Even better some Impala or Kudu. Who taught you to make it? |
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Post by lemonjeff on May 14, 2008 19:03:23 GMT
I brought back some Impala and "HOT" biltong from Pietersburg a few years ago, so I got the method and recipe from a friend in Johberg and it's pretty close. I found a lot of useful info here as well www.biltongbox.com/ |
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Post by jaco on May 16, 2008 16:44:34 GMT
I am very impressed. Have not heard the name Pietersburg for many years. It is now some other foreign sounding name, which means nothing to most people. |
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of course by the time that comes around they have broken, put splinters in me, or aren't worth the effort ;D
Now burn them on the fire if it's winter, or take them to the dump the rest of the year.